Jeanne Moreau Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

Cinema is not just a side show - it is something which is much deeper than that. It is a form of art which needs to be respected.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

We can use films and art to express what is happening around all of us.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.